Hello everyone! Living by jfk, I can’t express how jealous I am of my parents. When they were growing up; they’d get to hear, see, and experience the glory of concord. As some of you probably remember me saying the story a million times, my dad’s family even used the evening arrival around 6pm as a dinner bell of sorts, to know to come home. It rattled things off of counters, caused vibration cracks in the walls, and so much more. Amazing, isn’t it? Well, if you live in select locations throughout the world, you can still visit one. Here in New York, at the Intrepid Air, Sea, & Space Museum is what we have for it. Last April, an IF community event even happened there. Of course, the night before I had the pleasure of getting bronchitis and got to stay at home.. but, one of the coolest things about this former aircraft carrier repurposed as a museum is the plane that sits on the dock parallel. The concord. G-BOAD to be exact. Many of us on here have seen it, and even been inside of it. She has a lot of history, so this post will go through it all!
She first flew with passengers as British Airways on August 25th, 1976. Only a few years into operation, things get a bit interesting. She was the only concord to be painted in any other livery besides the two operators, Air France and British Airways. The left hand side of the plane was painted in a Singapore airlines livery, and it was re registered as G-N94AD. It was flew by British airways pilots, but interestingly, the cabin crew was a mix between both BA and Singapore airlines pilots. I personally love hybrid liveries like this. A different plane depending on what side you’re looking at! Below is a photo of what it looked like, on both sides. It flew between London and Singapore, with a 40 minute refueling stop in Bahrain.
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This was an interesting route, and the plane flew the first concord flight to Bahrain. Sadly, it was repainted in full British airways schemes in 1980, and returned to regular service routes.
In Mid-2000, Air France 4590, a Concord crashed after runway FOD caused a fuel tank explosion. G-BOAD, along with all other concords were withdrawn from service in August of 2000. The entire fleet was upgraded to hopefully avoid this issue.. but it took almost 2 years to get that done. A sitting plane is a plane that doesn’t make any money. Finally in 2002, it re entered service… but after 9/11, people didn’t want to fly, and it was insanely pricey due to the financial issues at the time. On November 10th, 2003 it flew its last flight, from LHR-JFK. Just after that, it hopped on a barge were it was floated to the Intrepid, where it was set to be preserved as part of the museum.
This is its permanent resting place. You can now walk inside of it, and sit in the concords seats just as you would’ve when it was in service. It was temporarily moved to a station in Brooklyn to be repainted, but it is back at the intrepid now.
I hope you guys enjoyed this mini-article about the rich history of this random plane 
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